painting with jenny jones
Jenny Jones was born in Norfolk in 1954, and brought up in Shropshire. She went to school in Hertfordshire, and after leaving school went to Florence for five months to study part time with the painter Russell Foreman. On her return, she did a foundation course at Shrewsbury Art School, followed by a degree course at Farnham, graduating in 1976. She began to exhibit oil paintings while teaching part time.
Married in 1978 she stopped painting for a child rearing break and in 1983 began painting in watercolours and was painting and exhibiting regularly by the time the family moved into Wales in 1992. There Jenny began to paint on a larger scale, painting mainly the farming community in Powys, and exhibiting widely in the following years.
In 1996 she represented Wales at the Interceltic Festival in Brittany, and in 1998 she was involved in a series of six educational programmes for Channel 4 and the BBC. She was one of six people filmed working in the arts, and featured in the programme which concentrated on painting.
She has won prizes for drawing and painting in England and Wales, and has had paintings in both the 2006 and 2008 biennial Wales Portrait Award exhibitions.
Jenny started illustrating in 1998, and “Danny and the Great White Bear” written by Anne Cottringer was published by Macmillan in September 1999. “Happy Birthday Amelia” by Nicola Moon and published by Pavilion, followed in October 1999. “When I Grow Up” by Lenny Gooding, was published by Macmillan in 2000. “The Sand Bear” by Shen Roddie, was published by Bloomsbury in 2002 and “Harry’s Box” was published in 2003. “One Bear Lost” and “Just One More Swim” were published by Parragon Books in 2008.
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Dates
4th to 5th April
25th to 28th August
19th to 20th September
Course fees
£115 (two day course)
£255 (four day course)
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What you will do on the course These courses will be based in the studio and out in the countryside around Golden Mill (weather permitting!).
What you should bring with you Materials needed will depend on what you are hoping to achieve. If you'd like to work big then please bring appropriate materials, we will not discourage you! Some people are certainly happier working on a bigger scale, but we would suggest, particularly on the weekend course, that most students might like to keep to an A3 sketch book, and aim to paint a smallish painting. You could be more ambitious on the 4 day course!
The following list will help, but should not restrict you!
What will be provided
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